Maine Punk History

More OOP Maine Punk media. 2006 CD from Fictional Drift, a teenaged punk band from Brunswick, active in the mid-2000s. Thanks to Joe W (drummer in the band) for the loan of the CD and permission to post on @archive.org . Find it at archive.org/details/bottom-of-a-city

Komatiite at Blue on Oct 16th 2025. Live audio at archive.org/details/koma.... Glad I dragged my ass out to see my friend Ryan‘s new band. Kinda hard to believe I’ve been watching this guy play in bands for 25 years. Falafel Attack! Doesn’t seem like yesterday, but not 25 years either.

Jeffrey Lewis at Space Gallery July 26 2025 I’ve seen him play a bunch of times, it’s always great show. This one featured a 13 minute oration / medley about the development of Punk in NYC from 1950 to 1975… so definitely check that out! archive.org/details/jeff...

Getting around to posting audio from last summer. Myles Bullen opening for Pigeon Pit at the Bike Barn . Audio recording available to download or stream for free at archive.org/details/myle...

Richard Julio owned the Wax Museum (the first local establishment to sell punk records and zines), was the DJ and booker at the old version of the Downtown Lounge and generally helped bring punk to Portland.

1978 flier for Boston Punk/garage rockers DMZ playing at Portland School of Art (now Maine College of Art & Design). This is one of the oldest fliers from Maine that I have seen, so it makes a lot of sense that it came from the collection of Richard Julio.

Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains, and The Lanterns at The Office, Portland, Maine 2005-03-03
I posted this flier awhile ago, but hadn't found the photos at that point. This was the first Johnny Hobo show outside of VT.
Audio of the whole show is available at archive.org/search?query...

This was the first time I saw Picnic Casket and it was just AJ shredding on guitar over beats from his ipod. Super fun times. Check out his new project The Migraine Aura

Picnic Casket at the Sahara Club 2007-01-28 . Stoked to find these photos while digging through an old HD. I tried to shoot a video at the time but it was just too dark. I wish I got better photos of the massive pillow fight that broke. Audio of this set at archive.org/details/pcas...

Another out of print cassette digitized! This is Our Time Has Come by Angry Folk. They were from Portland and active in the late 90s, until around 2000. This tape has 5 originals, 2 covers (including a Brother Inferior song), clips of Mumia Abu-Jamal etc archive.org/details/angryfolkourtime

1986 flier from a garage rock show at Geno’s in Portland, Maine.

1980 flier for The Donn’s 2 night stand at The Downtown Lounge in Portland. Hailing from Brooksville, The Donn’s were one of the first punk bands in Maine.

2004 Flier for a show put on by Muscle City Productions at The Industry in Portland. I could definitely use more info on Clit 45 and Complete Control.

Pigeon Pit Live at The Bike Barn on 2025-06-24 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 01. Intro02. Bad Advice03. Empties04. Stone Song05. Love Letters > Milk Crates06. Wichitalk07. X?08. Nights Like These09. River Song10. Bronco11. Crazy...

Live audio recording from last week’s Pigeon Pit show at @bikebarn.bsky.social is up on the Live Music Archive. More audio from this show coming soon! archive.org/details/pige...

Parking is always an issue, so carpool if you can and please check out edgewood-nursery.com/parking for detailed info on where to park. Please don’t park on Blackstrap rd.

Time for another show at the Bike Barn! June 24th we’ve got Pigeon Pit from WA coming through with local support from Myles Bullen and Milk St. $15 cash NOTAFLOF. Doors at 6pm / Show at 7pm. All ages welcome. It’s probably gonna be pretty packed, so wear a mask.

You should definitely go see @takaat.bsky.social on their tour if you can

I just uploaded the audio from Takaat’s set at The Apohadion last week to the Live Music Archive at archive.org. Thanks to @takaat_ for giving permission to share the audio! archive.org/details/taka...

Highly recommend checking out @takaat.bsky.social if their tour is coming to your area. (These @ s are IG handles)

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Great show last night at the Apohadeon in Portland with Takaat (Niger) and Crazy Deja Vu (Maine).

Spoonboy Live at The Office on 2005-03-03 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 01. Another Song About the Rain 02. The Restaurant 03. 04. Nihilism 05. My Generation 06. Fireball Or 07. California 08. Ghost Song 09. What You Want / Hell...

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Anyway, I miss those days, those friends, those shows… and the Odwalla dumpster.

This show was brought to mind recently when @cisgenderstudies.bsky.social mentioned it when talking about how The New Yorker profiled Patrick Schneeweis aka Pat the Bunny, lead singer/songwriter of Johnny Hobo and many other bands, currently in @friendsinreallife.bsky.social

This was the first show Johnny Hobo ever played outside of VT. Audio recordings exist of the whole show and Spoonboy, The Lanterns and Johnny Hobo sets are linked below.

2005 flyer for a folk-punk show at a vacant office space on middle st in Portland. I believe Spoonboy was the instigating artist for this one and the other acts were local/regional folks who @samn thought would be a good match. I remember this show well, although I lost the photos I took.

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The Brood was an all women garage-punk band from Portland, Chris Horne from this band is still playing shows regularly with her newer band Tiger Bomb. I don’t know anything about Have Not, so please fill in that blank if you can. From the collection of Lenny Smith and Jordan Kratz

2 1993 fliers for Tribe 8 playing at Zootz with local support from The Brood and Have Not. I’ve got both the show flier and the ledger size color poster from the this Tribe 8 tour. Tribe 8 was a pretty early queercore band from SF.

Flyer of unknown origin and date. I'm guessing 1990s? Maybe Y2k? I sure am glad it's not more relevant than ever in today's climate 🙄. From the collection of Lenny Smith and Jordan Kratz.